The Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea (RBKC) Pension Fund and its actuary, Hymans Robertson, are facing a judicial review as climate campaigners challenge the fund’s climate risk assessment
Shareholder advocacy group As You Sow has filed a lawsuit against global insurance giant Chubb Limited after it excluded a climate-related proposal from its 2026 proxy materials
To discredit the endangerment finding on legal grounds, the EPA must first accept emissions are a ‘major’ issue
US investors warn the rollback of EPA endangerment findings could undermine the US energy transition, disrupt long-term climate investments, and create costly regulatory patchworks
Climate models help pension funds estimate the financial costs of climate change, they are often imperfect. Do pension funds have a fiduciary obligation to critically engage with the models they adopt?
The second instalment of this series on climate-related fiduciary duty explores the duty of even-handedness and its link to climate investing. This crucial fine print of fiduciary rules is at the heart of on-going legal proceedings against CPPIB
Do pension funds have a fiduciary duty to make climate-aware investment decisions? Some members are prepared to take the question to court. In this three-part series, NZI investigates the pieces of the climate fiduciary puzzle
The FCA has launched a consultation on its proposed ESG regulatory regime. Beginnning June 2028, ESG ratings providers will be FCA-regulated. The approach, the regulator says, will increase investor confidence in ratings
Anders Shelde, CIO of Danish pension fund AkademikerPension, has written to the SEC expressing concerns over the changes to America’s no-action requests mechanism. Schelde warns that new changes will erode investor rights and push climate to the periphery
Four members of the Canada Pension Plan have launched a landmark lawsuit, arguing that the country’s largest pension fund is breaching its duty to protect contributors’ savings from climate-related risks and failing future generations of retirees.
Sharp divisions among MEPs show there is no easy consensus for the EU’s simplification and competitivity agenda
While the SEC has frozen plans for climate-related disclosures, the Federal Reserve, FDIC, US Treasury Department, and OCC have all walked out on Network for Greening the Financial System
